UW Veterinary Care News

Bucky Badger and Chancellor Rebecca Blank stand with donors and other members of the campus and state community as they take shovels in hand during a UW School of Veterinary Medicine building expansion and renovation groundbreaking. PHOTO BY: BRYCE RICHTER

Ground Broken for VetMed Expansion

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On Friday, June 18, the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine broke ground on its long-anticipated building expansion. The enhanced facilities will improve instruction space for students, double the size of the school’s small animal hospital and significantly enhance the large animal hospital, expand labs for studying naturally occurring animal and human diseases, and increase and modernize infectious disease research space. Speakers included Wisconsin Department of Administration Secretary Joel Brennan, UW System President Tommy Thompson, UW–Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, UW Foundation President Michael Knetter, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation CEO Erik Iverson and School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Mark Markel.
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COVID Questions: Pet Sitting

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Note: UW-Madison will be publishing answers to questions about COVID-19 and the pandemic each week in a COVID questions column. If you have a question, please email it to covid19update@uc.wisc.edu. This post was originally published here. Q: …

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A New Face, and New Hope, for Gemma

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Dog found with severe facial injuries receives reconstructive surgery Written by Meghan Lepisto Gemma’s journey begins in Doha, Qatar, found in the stairwell of an industrial area with ghastly injuries to her face. It ends in …

Former resident donor and teaching cows Maxine and Lois enjoy retirement on the farm of Eric Howlett DVM’18

‘Golden Girls Living Their Best Lives’

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Eric Howlett DVM’18 grew up in the sprawling Texas suburbs of Houston and freely admits to never touching a cow until he visited a University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) open house for …

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New Faculty Focus: Chelsea Holschbach DVM’14

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Chelsea Holschbach DVM’14: clinical instructor in Large Animal Internal Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, UW School of Veterinary Medicine Hometown: Baraboo, Wis. Educational/professional background: Having grown up on a Wisconsin dairy farm, I aspired from a …